New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 179

179 Legal ability to sublet

(1) For the purposes of this Division and despite the termination of the resident's residence contract, a resident referred to in section 7 (1) (c) is taken to possess a legal estate in his or her residential premises in the village such as to enable the resident to lease the premises to another person under a residential tenancy agreement.

(2) The resident ceases to possess that estate on completion of the sale of the premises.